Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:59:42 05/05/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 21:52:42, Dave Potesta wrote: >I've been reading the Fruity thread and it mentioned Ruffian as being involved >in some scandal. I searched on Google for "Ruffian Clone" and I found quite a >few links on other engines that are clones. By far, Crafty seemed to have been >cloned the most. No way. TSCP is the most, followed by Faile. GnuChess is in the vicinity. SCP has lots of clones as does Crafty. >I always assumed that all the engines out there were original, >I guess not. Most don't even say it. > I guess the Chess Programmer world is even smaller than I once thought. > > Which engines are clones? All of them in one sense -- the ideas are all borrowed from others. The amount of stuff that's truly original in any chess engine is probably about 5% on average. As far as cutting and pasting of code or even taking a complete program and stamping your name on it ... That's a lot harder to figure out.
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